Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of jobless in Britain rose in April for the 13th consecutive month , bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6% . |
| 2 | After Dunfermline had failed to scored against Raith for the fourth time this season , manager Jocky Scott conceded the championship race to the Kirkcaldy side . |
| 3 | Advisers came from Argentina for the same purpose . |
| 4 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 5 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 6 | NINE-EIGHTEEN is the name of the Italian company which came to Ferndown for the British Women 's Open and sold designer golf shirts and T-shirts such as we have never previously seen , even in the tented village at The Open . |
| 7 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 8 | By the time he arrived for Troon for the 1973 British Open , he 'd calmed down altogether ; he could n't do enough for me . |
| 9 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 10 | HUNDREDS of fans besieged Michael Jackson 's hotel after the pop superstar arrived in Singapore for the next stage of his world tour yesterday . |
| 11 | On 18 December 1989 , Nicolae Ceauşescu arrived in Teheran for the last of countless travels abroad . |
| 12 | SANTA SPECIALS which are a great source of revenue for many railway societies throughout the British Isles arrived in Dublin for the first time on Sunday , December 6th . |
| 13 | From that moment on , everything that happened to Pamella for the next month or so is a closely-guarded secret . |
| 14 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 15 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 16 | Former President Goukouni Oueddei returned to Chad for the first time in nine years on May 18-19 , meeting with President Idriss Déby and reportedly discussing the proposals for a multiparty system due to be introduced in January 1992 . |
| 17 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 18 | They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday 's offical world heavyweight title eliminator . |
| 19 | In July , because of the new Soviet approach , Khruschev , Bulganin , Eisenhower , Eden ( Churchill had now retired ) and France 's Edgar Faure met in Geneva for the first summit of East-West leaders since Potsdam , exactly ten years before . |
| 20 | Dr Kevin O'Kane worked in Baidoa for the Irish agency , Goal ; his wife , a doctor with Médecins sans Frontières , was evacuated last week because of death threats that shut down the MSF programme . |
| 21 | Between 1862 and 1867 Hardy worked in London for the ecclesiastical architect A. W. Blomfield , but returned to his old employer in Dorchester in July 1867 . |
| 22 | Cantona , who flew to Paris for the top-rated chat show Sacree Soiree after his United debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , added : ‘ I am fit and I enjoyed myself in the opener against Benfica . |
| 23 | A bad snap on a Colts ' punt attempt later gave Pittsburgh the ball on the Indianapolis 34 and Malone connected with Brenberg for the final Steelers ' first half score with 1:03 remaining . |
| 24 | The base rate rise is also certain to hit sales of new cars , which fell in September for the first time in 18 months , according to new figures released yesterday . |
| 25 | When Marek went to Poland for the first time , when he was eighteen , a place of pilgrimage had been his father 's grave . |
| 26 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 27 | That night Nathan went to India-May for the third time . |
| 28 | The inter-provincial championship went to Ulster for the sixth consecutive year , and Munster have shown good form . |
| 29 | 603 went to Philadelphia for the American Bi-Centennial celebrations in 1976 , but has since returned to San Francisco . |
| 30 | The third wicket saw 81 added , Atherton presenting a broad bat-face to Mushtaq Ahmed 's spin mixture , before Smith fell to Mushtaq for the third time in seven Test innings . |